Wow, serious case of self doubt today. Outside life is going well but the writing has taking a precipitous drop. I thought the writing was okay, I was liking the MC and the voice I was using for her, but now it's just terrible. I reread it and I can't stand it.
Is it possible I'm too close to it? But if I reach the end and it turns out she's really unlikeable that would be a lot of crap to fix. But if I show my beta reader now and she likes it then once again I didn't wait to let anyone read it and half the freebie-excitement of writing a new story is gone.
Just once I want to hand her a completed story--revised and polished--and say here, see what you think.
Which answers that: I will keep quiet and push on. Just once. And if it ends up being a trunk novel, I've only wasted a few months on it.
I love writetrack- let me count the ways. Just keeping to my schedule, I know the rough draft can be done by end of October. That's pretty awesome. Plus by then I'll have my first story in a trilogy making it's way around my Beta readers getting feedback. I'll even have a novelette and short story collection already published through Amazon.
All very good things.
Maybe by January, I'll even have some readers who love the worlds and the types of stories I'm writing.
